© 2025 All Rights reserved WUSF
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Our daily newsletter, delivered first thing weekdays, keeps you connected to your community with news, culture, national NPR headlines, and more.

The Presidential Fitness Test is back, says Trump

President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order restarting the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
/
President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order restarting the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Do you remember the Presidential Fitness Test? President Trump announced he’s bringing it back for school-aged children as part of the administration’s Make America Health Again campaign. It hasn’t been in place since 2012.

Here & Now‘s Asma Khalid learns more from Dawn Coe, an associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2025 WBUR

Here & Now Newsroom
Thanks to you, WUSF is here — delivering fact-based news and stories that reflect our community.⁠ Your support powers everything we do.